"Educated" is the story of a young woman denied schooling by her very religious family who went on to overcome early experience and earn a PhD in history from Cambridge University in England. The family is guided officially by the father who is not only suspicious of public schools and all things governmental but also most physicians and nurses. He uses the name "Illuminati" for groups or people of special knowledge or connections that he fears or dislikes.
The Dan Brown novel "The Da Vinci Code" also refers to a group with the name Illuminati so I looked it up. https://www.google.com/search?q=illuminati&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1-ab
This search result says that more than one group has gone by that name. But since the name is trotted out every so often in my reading, it came to Lynn's fertile and poetic mind.
See, her brother moved to town and we wanted to give him things he needed for his apartment. A trundle bed was one of the items and getting it out of the house showed us that somebody's bottle of glitter had rolled under the bed and spilled lots of the little pieces in the rug. Getting the bed out had spread the lovely little junk even more. Our inexpensive vacuum was pretty old and not very effective in getting the damned glits up. I got a new vacuum and it was no better at sucking up the glit but it was more effective at pulling the glit in and spewing it farther around the room.
I like to run to Google with all of my problems, however usual or unusual they are. I know from experience that any problem I have has likely also bothered others with the same Google habit. So, it doesn't surprise me when I type "Remove glitter…" and immediately the software suggests several phrases such as "from a rug", "from the house", "from the cat" and such. The most useful suggestion was to use tape wrapped around my hand and go around pressing shiny little bits onto the tape.
We have experienced glitter-itis before, around Christmas, when friends sent us Christmas cards that included glitter on parts of them. Our granddaughter has enough trouble with the stuff that she forbids any of it in her house but it can probably still sneak it.
It seems that the tiny little sparkles can run through the vacuum, with a few glits remaining in the inner parts and some clinging to the exterior surface of the machine. I intend to hunt down each tiny jewel. Check back with me in the summer.
